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Rivière-Éternité U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADA
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Rivière-Éternité files often depend on things that happened years ago: an employer since renamed, a reference letter written in an older vocabulary of job titles, a business bought as a package. Old records remain usable, but they have to be explained rather than quietly rewritten into today’s wording.
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Keep the original document and put the explanation beside it. A merger, a rebranding or a change of payroll provider does not erase the employment a record described, and a letter that no longer matches the current company name is evidence with a footnote, not a problem to hide.
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Explain authentic historical records
Connect the issuer with the work actually performed.
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The L-1 qualifying year is specific: one continuous year of employment with a qualifying related entity abroad, falling within the three years immediately before the petition. That clock is measured against dated employment records, so a gap, a secondment or a move between group companies is worth documenting now, while payroll and human-resources sources can still confirm it.
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Keep the original, add the bridge
Retain the reference, contract or statement exactly as issued, with its original dates and letterhead. Where a name or a corporate structure has changed since, attach the registry filing or corporate notice connecting the old name to the current one, rather than reissuing the document in today’s wording.
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Explain the relationship, not just the contact
A contractor, a customer and an employee all appear in the same address book. Say which was which: who paid, who directed the work, who carried the risk, and whether the arrangement amounted to employment at all. Service contracts do not become employment history merely by lasting a long time.
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Separate the project value from your contribution
A valuation prices the whole enterprise. It does not show what you put in, when, or from where. Set the appraisal beside your own dated transfers and ownership records, and let the file state your contribution as a figure somebody else could trace.
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Judge the new application on its own basis
A previous approval to travel does not carry forward. Each route has its own eligibility, evidence and decision, and an EB-5 immigrant investor filing leads to two years of conditional permanent residence and a later Form I-829 rather than to a status that simply continues from what came before.
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E-2 nationality runs twice over: the investor must be a national of the treaty country, and the enterprise’s ownership must be at least fifty per cent held by treaty nationals. A franchise package deserves the same care, because the fee, the training, the royalties and the equipment are separate items and only what you actually committed counts. Hypothetical example: an aluminium-fabrication supervisor buying a franchised workshop in Ohio counts the committed purchase price, never the franchisor’s advertised system value.
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Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Rivière-Éternité clients over video, telephone and WhatsApp; the practice has no premises and no listed number anywhere nearby. Where records are old we look for the source that still exists: a payroll archive, a corporate registry filing, a former supervisor who can confirm dates. What we will not do is replace a historical document with a tidier one. Nor are we a law firm: licensed U.S. counsel handles legal representation.
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My old employer has been renamed — must the reference be reissued?
Preferably not. Keep the letter as it was written and explain the change with independent evidence: a corporate registry record, a merger notice, or a statement from the successor company confirming continuity. A reissued letter in the new name, with no bridge back to the old one, is weaker than the original plus a documented explanation.
Do contractors who worked for me count as my staff?
Describe the arrangement honestly rather than converting it. Who set the hours, supplied the tools, carried the loss, and had the right to send somebody else? Outside support may be entirely relevant to how a business operates, but presenting a service supplier as an employee in a petition is a misdescription the underlying contracts will contradict.
The appraisal values the project above what I paid — which figure counts?
Your contribution counts. An appraisal measures the enterprise; an investor case measures what you irrevocably committed and placed at risk, traced from a lawful source. Show the transfers, the ownership interest they bought, and the dates. The valuation can sit in the file as context for the business, clearly labelled as a valuation.
I have held a visitor visa before — does that settle Gold Card eligibility?
It decides nothing. Prior admission as a visitor shows a travel history and no more, while the Gold Card applies its own eligibility, vetting, availability and payment conditions and reaches a separate decision on its own record. It is a gift paid to the U.S. government alongside a processing fee, rather than a conventional visa category or an EB-5 investment, so confirm the published terms at the official source before relying on them. Keep the travel history accurate and complete, and expect the new application to be assessed from the beginning.
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